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a
On
the
Nature of
Gad.
when
God (hall fay,Sinner, finner,
why
doll thou rebel
a-
gaira
nice
?
If
Cod
would
but
give
us one
light of
him-
[elf, that
wee
mightbehold
him
as
bee
is
upon
his
Throne,
in
this excellency of
his
Nine
above all
thugs,
it
were
impo ible
=but
the heart
of
a
ruiner should even
break
at
fuch
a
fight.
Certainly
o-oileday
every_
firmer
flail
have
a
fight of
God
:
Happy
it
isno:
for
us
to
have
fuch
a
fight
of
God
here in this world,
that
may caufe us
to
fee the evil
of
our
fii;
for otherwife
the
fight
of-
God hereafter
fink our 'fouls
into
the bottomlefs gulf
of
ho
r-
tour
and
defpair.
-When- Daniel
was about
to
confefs
his
fin
,
in
Dan.
9.
Mark
how.
bee begins
,
becaufe hee
would get
his
heart
to
bee
affe&îed
with
his
fin
,
and the
fins
of
the aple
of
there
hee,confeft
Mark
how hee
Pan
begins
his pra
t
kind
I
pra
è
=
t
fxit+h'hee
in
the 4. verfe)
9'
4`
unto the
Lord
my
God, and made
my
confeffion,
and Paid
O
Lord,
the
great
and dreadful
God
;
thus-hee
l
egins,
I
made
confeflion
(faith
he, -I
prayed.
and
made
confeflion of fin,
and
Paid
,
Ch
Lord,
the
great
and
dreadful
God :
ftfl
hee
looks upon
God
hasw.great
and dreadful
hee,
iiias,
and this
it
was
that
caufed him
to
confefs
his fin
with humiliation
:
you
that
fay
your
prayers
,
and will confefs
that
yöù
are
(inners,
did
you
but
at .the
beginning
of.
your
prayers,
When
you
go
to
confefs
-your
fin
call up one
eye
to hea-
ven, and
behold this
God
upon his Throne,
Ad
fee
him
to
bee the great
and dreadful
God,
it
would caufe
you
to
confefs
fin
after another
mariner
than
ever yet
you have
done
It
is
a
good thing
therefore
in
our prayers , when
wee
are
about
to
confefs fin
,
firfl
tofet
before our fouls
the
greatnefs and the dreadfulnefs
-óf'
that
God
that
wee
have finned againil.
When
this
Prophet
.Daniel
would
humble
that
próud
BelJhazzer, in
Dan.5.x3.,Mark
what
hee
faith
,
And
the God in
wkfe
hand
thy
breath
it
,
and
whofe
are
thy wayes,
hat
than not
glorified
This
fpeech
fet
home upon á mans confcience", were enough
to
break the
proudefl
andflóuteil heart
ìi -the
world.
:If
fo'
bee
that
the
eyes
of the proudell
lloute(}
finner were opened
ro
fee
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